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Aflatoxins are toxic chemicals produced by certain molds that can grow on crops like peanuts, corn, and grains, especially in warm and humid conditions. They're a health concern because consuming foods contaminated with aflatoxins can cause serious illness in both humans and animals.
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Research
18,018 papers- [Aflatoxins in food].Die Nahrung · 1972
- Aflatoxins in the soil ecosystem: an overview of its occurrence, fate, effects and future perspectives.Mycotoxin research · 2020
- [Aflatoxins--health risk factors].Bacteriologia, virusologia, parazitologia, epidemiologia (Bucharest, Romania : 1990) · 2010
- Aflatoxins in maize, milk and dairy products from Serbia.Food additives & contaminants. Part B, Surveillance · 2024
- Aflatoxin Contamination, Its Impact and Management Strategies: An Updated Review.Toxins · 2022
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Aflatoxins are various poisonous carcinogens and mutagens that are produced by certain molds, especially Aspergillus species such as Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus. According to the USDA, "They are probably the best known and most intensively researched mycotoxins in the world." The fungi grow in soil, decaying vegetation and various staple foodstuffs and commodities such as hay, maize (corn), peanuts, coffee, wheat, millet, sorghum, cassava, rice, chili peppers, cottonseed, tree nuts, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, and various cereal grains and oil seeds. They have been found in both pet and human foods, as well as in feedstocks for agricultural animals. Animals fed contaminated food can pass aflatoxin transformation products into milk, milk products, and meat. For example, contaminated poultry feed is the suspected source of aflatoxin-contaminated chicken meat and eggs in Pakistan.